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ACCA Audit and Assurance (AA)

A full ACCA AA plan: the current syllabus and examinable documents checked, a calendar across all five sections, weekly scenario practice in exam style, timed mocks and an exam day you have rehearsed.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for ACCA Audit and Assurance (AA), and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

ACCA Audit and Assurance (AA)

Studying ACCA Audit and Assurance: audit planning and risk, internal controls, evidence, reporting and ethics, with scenario questions written in exam style.

  1. AA syllabus, exam format and examinable documents check
  2. Booking your AA exam session and centre
  3. Where AA fits in your Applied Skills order
  4. AA study text, exam kit and tuition choice
  5. Weekly study hours budget for AA
  6. AA study calendar across the five syllabus sections
  7. Audit vocabulary sheet for students new to audit
  8. Practising in the CBE software with the specimen exam
  9. Weekly AA study block routine
  10. Weekly timed Section B question
  11. Objective test case practice sets
  12. Lost marks error log
  13. Examiner's reports reading routine
  14. Technical articles from the AA examining team
  15. ISA and audit procedure flashcards
  16. Monthly AA progress review
  17. Assurance engagements and the statutory audit
  18. Corporate governance and the audit committee
  19. Internal audit functions and outsourcing
  20. Ethics threats and safeguards under the ACCA Code
  21. Accepting the engagement and planning the audit
  22. Understanding the entity and planning analytical procedures
  23. Audit risk, materiality and auditor responses
  24. Fraud, error, laws and regulations responsibilities
  25. Internal control components and IT controls
  26. Control deficiencies in the main transaction cycles
  27. Tests of control and reporting deficiencies to management
  28. Assertions, evidence and audit sampling
  29. Receivables, revenue and confirmation procedures
  30. Inventory count attendance and valuation
  31. Non-current asset audit procedures
  32. Payables, accruals and provisions procedures
  33. Bank, cash, loans and share capital procedures
  34. Estimates, experts and relying on internal audit
  35. Subsequent events, written representations and misstatements
  36. Going concern indicators and auditor procedures
  37. Auditor's report opinions and modifications
  38. Writing audit procedures that score
  39. Weak section recovery plan
  40. First full timed AA mock exam
  41. Final month AA revision plan
  42. AA exam day plan and test centre logistics
  43. AA results and next-step decision
  44. AA as a trainee in an audit firm
  45. AA without audit experience, from an industry role
  46. AA alongside university or college
  47. AA retake plan after an unsuccessful attempt
  48. Reading published auditor's reports, including key audit matters
  49. Audit data analytics on a sample ledger
  50. Auditing a charity or public sector body

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

AA syllabus, exam format and examinable documents check

ACCA updates the AA syllabus and study guide each exam year and publishes a list of examinable documents, so a study text or forum post from an earlier year can be wrong about which standards and topics count. Reading the current pages on ACCA's website before buying anything tells you exactly what your session tests and how the exam is structured.

First tasks

  • Download the current AA syllabus and study guide from ACCA's website
  • Write down the exam structure exactly as ACCA describes it for your session
  • Save the examinable documents list and highlight the ISAs it names
  • Recheck ACCA's AA page for syllabus or examinable document changes @recurring(quarterly)

Booking your AA exam session and centre

Exam sessions run on a published timetable with entry windows, and the fee usually rises the closer you book to the deadline. Picking a session that leaves at least three clear months of study, and entering in the cheapest window, removes one of the commonest reasons students sit underprepared or pay more than they need to.

First tasks

  • Look up the next two AA session dates and entry deadlines in your ACCA account
  • Count the study weeks between today and each session
  • Choose a centre and time the trip there at that time of day
  • Enter the exam and save the confirmation email in your study folder

Where AA fits in your Applied Skills order

Most students find AA easier after Financial Reporting, because audit procedures assume you know how the balance being tested is measured and presented. Checking whether you hold an exemption, and deciding which exam AA is paired with or follows, prevents a session where two heavy papers collide.

First tasks

  • Check your ACCA account for any exemption already granted for AA
  • List the Applied Skills exams passed and still outstanding
  • Decide whether AA follows FR, stands alone or pairs with another exam
  • Write the chosen order and the reason in your study plan

Make it yours.

Install ACCA Audit and Assurance (AA), then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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